I know what your saying in your response, it just frustrates me that people rely on either What Pumpkin to release everything they want OR they rely on others to do the heavy work of making props, cosplays, and scalemates and then putting out tutorials on how they did it. What gets me steamed is the apparent loss of imaginative thinking in creating things as simple as scalemates or plotting out design concepts of outfits. Why do people like the bloke I reblogged act like fish out of water.
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Oh okay yeah I see what you are saying here, I think, where people expect to be handed information/things just because they feel like they’re entitled to having it, instead of working hard on it…?
My problem with this is that oftentimes there are people who already have considerable time and experience in a particular skill like plushie drafting and making (that they most likely learned from somewhere/one else and lots of practice) and they’re going to be a lot better at coming up with how to do those things than someone who is a complete newbie to that field. Additionally a lot of communities (especially cosplay ones) can have very…negative reactions to poor results and that inclines a lot of people to not even try to start with or buy them off someone who can make them better than they think they would make themselves.
If someone already has made something impressive and is willing to share how they did it, then it doesn’t make a lot of sense to force people to ignore that information for the sake of essentially reinventing a wheel. However, if that person does not wish to discuss it, no one is entitled to it and no one has a right to demand it.
I don’t think that a lack of information will promote imaginative thinking at all. People who genuinely like trying to think of ways to make things, or who like trying to make things a little harder than they think they can make, or just plain stubborn/passionate about it, they will just go for it regardless of whether or not there is a tutorial to do it, and oftentimes will look for backup information relevant to what they are trying to do. Other people will see something like a tutorial and go ‘well that’s an interesting way to do that, but what if I switched out such-and-such for this’ and will generate content inspired by that initial information. Other people just starting out benefit from tutorials because it gives them a structured way to learn and practice that skill that they might not otherwise have even considered because they didn’t know anything about how to do it to begin with, and once those people feel confident enough in that then they might move on to figuring out how to just make up stuff off the cuff. The dissemination of information inspires a lot more people to create things than a lack of it does; only a few will see that lack and think ‘Ah, a challenge!’ and do something about it, and in turn that results in inspiring other people.
As someone who constantly wants to know how things are made, the redaction and censorship of information about how to make things instantly strikes a gut reaction of anger in me. It’s very, very frustrating to me to search and search for something as pervasive as shoes and come up with nothing time and time again. Equally, I understand that no one owes me this information, because it often pertains to how they make their living.
I honestly couldn’t tell you why OP is mad unless they were one of the people making money off ‘their versions’. :U WP asked people to stop selling items that profited off Homestuck, not making them or giving them away.
